A year later she became the first accredited journalist to participate in a combat parachute jump on 23 February 1967, joining the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Operation Junction City.

[6] She had her press credentials temporarily suspended after she swore at a Marine officer who she felt was condescending in denying her request to jump shortly after Operation Junction City.

[3] During the battle for Hill 881 on 30 April 1967 she took a series of photos of U.S. Navy Corpsman Vernon Wike tending to a dying Marine which were published in Life to critical acclaim.

[4] On 19 May 1967, while photographing Operation Hickory with a Marine unit near the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone, she was severely injured by People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) mortar fire.

[3] She was evacuated first to Con Thien, then to the USS Sanctuary, where she was visited by III Marine Amphibious Force commander General Lew Walt.

At the awards ceremony in early April in New York she used her acceptance speech to berate the Associated Press which she accused of losing her negatives, which spoiled her relationship with AP and Horst Faas.

[10]: 123–5  Returning to South Vietnam in May she struggled to regain her momentum, losing the drive for fieldwork: When you look at war photographs, it's a silent moment of eternity.

In August 1969 she accepted an assignment from Look to cover the Woodstock festival but on the first day decided to join the crowd and spent the subsequent months travelling and doing drugs with Vietnam veterans she had met there.

From 1977 to 1986 she covered conflicts in Northern Ireland, Cyprus, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and Libya for Time stopping war photography in the early 1990s.

She was the first woman to receive the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award – "best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise" – for her coverage of the civil war in Lebanon, in 1976.